John Romero’s new studio Kickstarting an old-school RPG project

Brenda Brathwaite, founder of Wizardry, and wife of ex-id Software developer John Romero, has teamed up with Ion Storm co-founder Tom Hall on a new Kickstarter project. It’s an old-school RPG and they’re looking for $1 million in funding.

Eurogamer reports that the project, which is currently called ‘Old School Role-Playing Game’, needs $1 million to get off the ground, with a stretch goal to make a second game if the project hits $1.9 million.

Recruitable Characters: Hire NPCs to work with you, if you trust them, or allow them to hire you to be their guide.

Character Extensions (Stretch Goal): Wrestle with the old-school favorites from back in the paper days – alignment, age, rank and randomly-rolled temperament.

Exploration: Explore a richly detailed world, home to unique, dangerous and sometimes crafty creatures who may be friend or foe.

Treasure: Loot castles, caverns and dungeons and defeat hordes of creatures in a world where your skill and cunning are key.

NPCs: At least five known NPC races call this world home. Forge alliances with them and do their bidding – or be their undoing.

Quests: Solve hundreds of quests on your way to discovering and uncovering the secrets of the world.

Multiple Endings: The smallest of intentions sometimes matters far more than you know. It is a world alive with memories.

Multiple Beginnings (Stretch Goal): The endings in one game affect the beginnings in another. Import your characters from one world to another.

Combat: Turn-based combat harkens back to the days when spells and swords hit hard and last-second healing spells saved the day.

NPC Enemies (Stretch Goal): What once was a relatively peaceful world becomes much more dangerous not only for you, but for those who live there. New NPCs come complete with an expanded game area and quests.

They’re both industry legends, they’ve both worked on some of gaming’s most treasured franchises, and now they both have the same surname: Brenda Brathwaite and John Romero got hitched this weekend in a quiet ceremony at Disneyland. The pair have worked together for years, co-founded Loot Drop together, and were engaged earlier this year. Congratulations […]

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